Development Supply Chain Lead, Senior Manager- US Remote

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Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Development Supply Chain Lead (DSCL), Senior Manager

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of products, process knowledge and technology solutions to enable Amgen’s accelerated product commercialization. The DSC business spans from demand and supply planning, sourcing, and manufacturing to distribution of products to support clinical trials globally. As an integral part of both the Global Supply Chain and Process Development organizations, DSC provides an innovation ecosystem to advance differentiating multi-modality capabilities and gain insight within development and a regulated environment in support of product and process development. Leveraging agile planning, tech transfer, and manufacturing support capabilities, DSC supports speed to market for Amgen’s innovative products and biosimilars. We are seeking a highly motivated individual who will lead Clinical Supply Chain management of multiple programs, drive strategic decisions in support of Product Development Teams (PDTs), and support business excellence initiatives to further transform the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a program-specific single point of contact for End-to-End Supply Chain Management and DSC strategies
• Provide DSC subject matter expertise to Product Delivery Teams for accelerated or highly complex programs ensuring reliable and efficient execution
• Lead program-specific Supply Chain Teams to obtain accurate demand forecast, to manage supply plans and to mitigate risks
• Develop, manage and monitor long-range supply strategies that fulfill varying clinical develop plans with consideration to product intermediate and finished good variations and impact on DSC budget, capabilities and capacities
• Apply Continuous Improvement principles to our business processes across DP&IM to drive efficiency in execution and improved inventory management decisions with Operations resources
• Lead and support project management of wholistic DP&IM initiatives to further drive value creation, productivity, and scalability of the business

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a go getter with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree and 2 years of Supply Chain, Operations, or Life Sciences experience

Or

Master’s degree and 4 years of Supply Chain, Operations, or Life Sciences experience

Or

Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of Supply Chain, Operations, or Life Sciences experience

Or

Associate’s degree and 10 years of Supply Chain, Operations, or Life Sciences experience

Or

High school diploma / GED and 12 years of Supply Chain, Operations, or Life Sciences experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Supply Chain, Operations, or Life Sciences
• GCP & GMP knowledge and understanding of clinical drug development
• 5 + years of work experience in the planning, manufacturing and global distribution of medicinal products
• 3 + years organizational or program management (leading teams, cross-functional problem solving, performance management, budget oversight, process development and improvement)
• 3 + years of work experience in clinical study design, approval, supply and management
• 3+ years of supply chain management using SAP (logistics, supply planning, demand management)
• Exceptional communication skills and executive presence to collaborate and network both vertically and horizontally and drive results
• Demonstrated project management skills and ability to maintain organization of deliverables and timelines for complex teams
• Highly analytical with atten